Quote:
Originally posted by ahmadjee:
OldLahori,
First its more so a political question than religious. Second, Pakistan is not as much tied to Iran as people like to believe. The majority population provinces have their roots across the other border & with NWFP having its roots in Afghanistan.
Change is inevitable in Iran, the reformists are getting more & more support day by day & its a fact. Is it 70%? Hummm, I donno. Is it against theocracy as principle or actually against how its run is also another point to look into.
|
I know very little of Iran, and the few iranians I know here are very westernised. One is an apostate outright and is a member of SRF ( she is a nice person ) but frankly I consider her a little "loose in the head". The other one is totally secular. So the only real information I get is what I glean over the net. 70% sounds high to me too. But then I have no basis to compare it too. When you consider that Farsi was the official language of the Mughals, and it was the language of the intellectuals of South Asia for 700 years, and that Fiqh Jafari has a fairly large standing in the population of South Asia, I would think that atleast historically Pakistan's culture and Iran's culture would be tied strongly. I am given to understand that a large fraction of Urdu's idiom comes from Farsi. I would be very interested in hearing from someone who knows more about Iran: are the reformists against theocracy as principle or not? I think they way they have expressed themselve in the Iranian Press at times, it certainly sounds like it. How much following do they really have? I do believe that what happens in Iran will influence Pakistan's culture and polity quite a bit.